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Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall ...
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Three of Marlena de Blasi's bestselling romantic, food-entwined memoirs set in luscious Italy now in one deliciously romantic volume. A Thousand Days in Venice ...
The true story of one girl's escape from the wilds of the counterculture movement . . . In the late 1960s, Cea Sunrise Person's family left ...
While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively ...
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A transformative portrait of Churchill, whose love of history, theater, and reading was inextricably linked to his life as a statesman This strikingly original book ...
The extraordinary true story behind the film Belle. The life of Dido Elizabeth Belle - the first mixed race aristocrat who was brought up as the ...
Shirley Jones is an American film legend of the first order, having starred in Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Music Man, and her Oscar-winning role as a ...
With her brassy voice and bold performances making the world finally pay attention, Sophie Von Haselberg, the ambitious Jewish girl from Hawaii, embarked on her ...